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OFFICERS and “DIRECTORS 


OFFICERS 


SAMUEL INSULL, President 
MartTIN J. INsuLL, Vice-President 
Joun F. Gricurist, Vice-President 
Ouiver E. McCormick, Treasurer 
Eustace J. Knicut, Secretary & Asst. Treasurer 
R. E. McKee, Assistant Secretary 
E. A. Davis, Auditor 


Ratpu D. SreEveENSsON, Counsel 





(DIRECTORS 
WALTER S. BREWSTER Martin J. [NSULL 
Britton I. Bupp SAMUEL INSULL 
Epwarp J. DoyLE E. W. Lioyp 
Louts A. FERGUSON CuyarLEs A. MUNROE 
WituiaM A. Fox L. E. Myers 
Joun F. Grucurist Epwarp P. RussELL 
Joun H. Guiick MarsHALy E. SAMPSELL 

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WicuiAMmM A. Fox MartTINn J. INSuLL 
Joun F., GILCHRIST SAMUEL INSULL 
Joun H. GuLick CuHar_Les A. MuNROE 


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Foreword” 


HE MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COM- 

PANY was founded—and has been suc- 

cessful—on the somewhat revolutionary 

idea that full electric light and power 

facilities could be profitably supplied to 

compact groups of smaller cities and 

towns through closely-knit transmission 

systems, they being supplied with energy 

from efficiently operated and advantageously located central 
stations of large size. 


Prior to its organization—in May, 1912—there were no 
companies formed primarily for that purpose. There had been 
organizations somewhat similar to the Middle West Utilities 
Company but they controlled the electric business of larger 
cities that were not directly connected with each other. 


The carefully conceived plan, originating in the minds of 
those who had been foremost in electrical development in the 
Middle West, was the formation of what might be termed “elec- 
trical districts,” each composed of all cities and towns within 
prescribed areas, which might be closely tied together by 
transmission line systems and served from central stations 
capable of economical and large volume production. It was 
the plan that electrical energy should be produced within those 
districts by the most economical agency, whether it be steam, 
water power, natural gas or oil. 


It was further a part of the plan that these “electrical dis- 
tricts” should be distributed in various states, so as to protect 
the holding company to the utmost degree. Through this 
means, wide diversity in use of electricity was to be obtained 
and risk avoided from adverse conditions—business or other- 
wise—which might affect an enterprise purely local in char- 
acter. 


It was believed that elimination of the “dusk to dawn” 
service of isolated plants, poorly financed and incapable of 
expansion, would work greatly towards the growth and devel- 
opment of the cities and towns within the areas, which at the 


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MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 


same time, would mean constant growth in business. It was 
felt, too, that the subsidiaries, operating these “electrical dis- 
tricts” should be conducted as full-fledged separate entities 
under purely local management, having full authority to carry 
out the general policies of the holding company. 


In the acquisition of many small electric companies, as 
the plan expanded, it was necessary that the Middle West 
Utilities Company obtain properties which also sold other forms 
of utility service. Asa result, organized primarily to conduct an 
electric light and power business, the company came into the 
possession of gas plants, water pumping stations, small elec- 
tric railways and also ice plants. It has since found most of 
these branches of the industry profitable—some of them 
highly so. 


As to the success of the plan, the following facts are 
illuminating. 


The Middle West Utilities Company controls 22 operating 
companies, which, on August 31, 1923, provided utility serv- 
ices directly to more than 1,800,000 people in 695 cities and 
towns in 15 states. Through sale of services at wholesale, 
it sold its products indirectly in 232 additional communities, 
or a total of 927 cities and towns, and through wholesaling 
of energy to other electrical utilities, reached many others. 


Ten years ago, the gross income of the operating com- 
panies was $3,680,676. In 1922 gross income was $29,- 
870,701 and it is increasing at the rate of above 20 per cent 
a year. 


The electric transmission lines, on August 31, 1923, were 
6,050 miles in length, energy being fed into them from 136 
steam and hydro-electric plants which in 1922 delivered 711,- 
950,821 kilowatt hours of energy. 


The electric railways are carrying 24,000,000 passengers 
a year. The gas plants sold 2,000,000,000 cubic feet of gas 
in 1922. The 48 ice plants have an annual production capac- 
ity of 350,000 tons. Water service is provided in 30 com- 
munities and the electric and gas appliance business has 
reached large proportions. 


In the succeeding chapters the story of the development of 
the Middle West Utilities Company and its operating subsidi- 
aries is related. | 


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Kilbourn, meee eee TRE a ic sneapmnenest iT TT ADEs Hydro- Electric 


( Wis.) SEE cee ie ee Plant 


The Service Rendered 


UBLIC servants performing a myriad of tasks are the operating subsi- 
diaries of the Middle West Utilities Company. 

Measured in terms of revenue, 65 per cent of their service con- 
sists of furnishing electric energy for practically every known use in which 
this dependable servant of industry may be employed. 

Other important phases of their business are the production and dis- 
tribution of gas both for domestic and industrial uses; the operation of 
city and interurban railways; the operation of motor bus lines; the manu- 
facture and sale of ice in great quantities; the furnishing of public water 
supply for many communities and the sale of gas and electrical labor- 
saving appliances. 

There is wide diversity of use of the services in the numerous, but com- 
pact, areas served in the 15 states. In Texas and Oklahoma, the electric en- 
ergy is depended upon for operating cotton gins, and in New England for cot- 
ton spindles and quarrying. In the Middle West, South and Southwest, great 











Muddy power station of the Central Illinois Public Service Company near Harrisburg, Illinois, 
supplying energy to large coal mine customers 


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A fast passenger train on the Interstate Public Service Company high-speed electric railroad 
between Indianapolis, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky 


amounts of coal are mined by the aid of the operating companies’ power, and 
in the upper peninsula of Michigan, the mining of iron ore is dependent 
on the energy supply. 

The overflow lands along the Illinois River are reclaimed and the 
thirsty soil of the Platte Valley is irrigated by electric pumps whose source 
of energy is in the plants of the Middle West Utilities constituent properties. 

The building stone of Indiana and the lumber industries of many 
states use their power. Grain of the vast corn and wheat belts, the oil of 
the mid-continent fields and the products of the great Wisconsin dairy coun- 
try, all have their claim upon the activities of these companies. 

In addition, every imaginable type of factory depends upon the Middle 
West Utilities organization for service. People are carried to and from 
work, aid is given in maintaining evening amusements, merchants’ display 
of wares is facilitated, the streets, the home and the office are lighted, food 
is cooked, and use of the thousand and one labor-saving devices that have 
done so much to lighten tasks, both in the home and the factory, are made 
possible by the activities of this extensive organization. 





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Centralia (Ill.) ice plant of Central Illinois Public Service Company, which provides icing 
requirements of the Illinois Central Railroad Company 


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Electric generating station and ice plant at Okmulgee, Oklahoma, of the Oklahoma Power 
Company, an American Public Service Company subsidiary 


Company's Story ~ 
One o Progress 


HE story of the Middle West Utilities Company is largely that of the 
advance of the electrical industry itself during the past decade. 
The benefit to the territory served, through this rapid progress in 
making bountiful electricity available, is incalculable. 

Towns that formerly had service for only a few hours of the night 
now have continuous service. Smaller communities that had no electric 
service and could not be served profitably by any other method, now enjoy 
the advantage of light and power service equal to that found in large cities. 

Fifty-five communities are served with gas. For five of these natural 
gas is purchased and distributed. In 1922, the output of gas to customers 
was nearly 2,000,000,000 cubic feet. The gas division had in service 858 
miles of mains. Largely because of many new industrial uses for gas, the 
sale of manufactured gas is 
a fast growing business. 

Sixteen railways, large 
and small, are included in 
the service-rendering facil- 
ities of the Middle West 
Utilities properties. They 
serve 29 communities, but 
their combined earnings con- 
stituted only 9.4 per cent of 
the subsidiaries’ gross in - 
come for the year 1922. 
The electric railway proper- 
ties have nearly 400 miles of 
track, both city and inter- 





New Albany (Ind.) gas plant of the Interstate Public 
urban. Service Company 


PAGE SEVEN 


MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 





Hydro-electric power plant of Interstate Public Service Company, Monticello, Indiana 


The 48 ice plants of the Middle West subsidiaries have total 
daily manufacturing capacity of 2,216 tons of ice. 





During the year 1922, when the companies had only 38 ice i se 
plants with aggregate capacity of 1,575 tons a day, they sold 214,- Spillway and poutine Hae 
205 tons of ice, producing revenue of $1,813,264, or 6.1 per cent District Pt 
of the total gross earnings. 


The ice business is becoming more and more closely related to 
the electric industry. The trend of modern ice making is toward 
electrically operated plants. The great two-fold advantage of the 
change from steam to electric ice making is a superior product with 
increased production efficiency. The motor-driven ice plant natur- 
ally replaces the old steam-driven plant that previously was oper- 
ated in conjunction with the small electric generating stations now 
being closed down in favor of transmission line service. 





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Middle West U: 
Operating, 









Further advantages in joint operation of electric and ice prop- 
erties are that the ice industry provides revenue in the months when 
the electric earnings are lowest, and improves the load factor of the 
electric generating stations. A very large proportion of the com- 
panies’ ice business is in the South and Southwest where the long 
summers create extended demand for the product. 





A view of the hydro-electric power house and dam, Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin, owned [ 


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Fie electric station, South Boe [Ve of the Berwick and ae Falls 
Electric Company 


Water service for 30 communities and heat service in 9 com- 
munities made up about 3 per cent of the Middle West Company’s 
business in 1922. The operating companies have nearly 400 miles 
of mains in use to supply these services. 





Pees. eects superior In addition, an important part is played in providing public 


water supply through electric pumping for municipally operated 
water systems throughout the territory served. 

The business of selling electric and gas appliances, though in- 
cidental to the main business of supplying electrical energy and gas, 
produces substantial earnings. 

The income from merchandise sales and job work in the year 
ended December 31, 1922, amounted to $1,865,423, or 6.3 per cent 
of the total gross revenue. Sales for the first eight months of 1923 
indicated an increase of 65 per cent in the 1923 year. 

The sale of thousands of appliances is interesting as illustrating 
the widely diversified uses to which the products of the Middle West 
subsidiaries are put. An indication of the possibilities of growth 
in electric cooking, alone, in communities where gas is not available, 
is seen in the fact that in 1915 there were no electric ranges served, 
whereas on August 31, 1923, there were 7,200 families cooking 
electrically. 









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he Wisconsin River Power Company, one of the North West Utilities Company subsidiaries 


PAGE NINE 


MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 








Pamp room, Tulsa power station, of the Oklahoma Power Company 








Properties 
Advantageously Grouped 


HE territorial spread of operations is clearly shown in the mapping 
of the 16 groups into which the principal subsidiary companies are 
allocated. 

This spread of operations, expressed in character of industries served, 
is extraordinary. It shows a diversity of business which is a protection 
against the effects of practically any untoward happening, business depres- 
sion or otherwise. 

An important feature of the physical characteristics of the system is 
the manner in which the small cities and towns form compact groups. The 
regard to the sources 
of power that would 
serve a given district 
and the industrial re- 
quirements that 
would utilize these 
power sources. 

The organization 
has been so well 
worked out that the 
electrical energy, 
from which 65 per 
cent of the revenue 
is derived, finds its 
chief market in the 
compact groups of 
cities and towns just 
referred to. 

Where water pow- 
er is available and _ 





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Freight train on the Interstate Public Service Company’s electric railroad 


fuel resources are distant, water power is chiefly used. Where no water pow- 
er is available, the generating plants are built at, or near, the coal or other 
fuel supply source. In Kentucky, Virginia and Illinois, steam plants are sit- 
uated close to the mine mouth. In the Oklahoma and Texas groups the plants 
are designed to use oil or gas, either of which is produced on the spot. 


The grouping of properties has thus brought striking economies in 
capital expenditures and in production. 


The physical result of combining properties has been the retirement 
from service of nearly three times as many generating plants as are now 
in constant operation. A total of 229 plants have been completely closed 
down and 53 standby plants are in process of elimination. 


When it is remembered that the abandoned plants were small, ex- 
tremely inefficient and many of them of the type that gave only night 
service, the gain to the communities in adequate service, better rates and 
consequent improvement in community conditions can be appreciated. 


A more interesting turn is given to the figures if they are analyzed in 
detail. The Illinois group, which includes the largest number of communi- 
ties, has 15 operating stations against 87 closed down and 16 standby 
stations partially operating. In this instance, almost six times as many 
stations have been closed down completely, as are now in constant operation. 
The Wisconsin group, with 18 operating and 6 standby stations has closed 
down 42 stations. 
Indiana, with 13 op- 
erating and 8 stand- 
by stations has 
closed down 14: sta- 
tions. 





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the groups and from MASTRN WSEDISH ELECTRIC COMPANY. 


outside sources. a <I 


In the Wisconsin 
group, the intercon- 
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tems to take power 
from the Prairie du 


Sac and Kilbourn 





‘ One of the bus fleet of Eastern Wisconsin Electric Company, 
hydro-electric plants operating between Fond du Lac and Plymouth, Wisconsin 


PAGE ELEVEN 


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MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 





Eastern Wisconsin Electric Company’s gas plant at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 


has aided in preventing the building of numerous small and inefficient plants 
in small communities as well as in permitting the shutting down of existing 
stations of that character. This has conserved the financial resources of 
the communities. 


The Illinois properties lead in the number of sources of purchased 
power, indicating their possession of a greater number of opportunities to 
do so advantageously. The Indiana group is next in line in this respect. 


Through inter-connection of transmission systems a greater degree of 
service has not only been brought about but a greater factor of continuity 
assured. It is possible to interchange electricity so as to make any quantity 
needed at given point immediately available and to get the maximum of 
efficiency and service from the capital investment. 


The great achieve- 
ment of the Middle 
West Utilities organiza- 
tion lies in the taking of 
territory that would oth- 
erwise have inadequate 
service and by linking 
up the properties, util- 
izing the most efficient 
stations and _ providing 
new and efficient ones of 
adequate size, giving to 
the communities service 
equal to that of the more 
highly developed com- 
mercial and industrial 





Gas plant of Michigan Gas & Electric Company at 
Ripley, Michigan centers. 


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Gas and electric plants and car barns at Ishpeming, Michigan 


How the Business 
Has Grown 


HE annual report of the Middle West Utilities Company for the year 
1917 gave the gross earnings of subsidiaries as $9,620,216. 
By the end of the year 1922, the earnings had more than tripled, 
the gross income for the latter year being $29,870,701. 
The earnings of the subsidiaries for the first eight months of 1923 were 
24.6 per cent greater than for the corresponding period in 1922. 
The Middle West Utilities Company’s proportion of subsidiary earn- 
ings for the first eight months of 1923 was 33.5 per cent greater than for 


the corresponding 
months of the preceding 
year. 

In each of three con- 
secutive months of 1923 
the properties produced 
earnings nearly equal to 
those of the fiscal year 
ended April 30, 1913. 

The tremendous 
growth of the subsidiar- 
ies’ business is seen in 
comparing the number 
of electric customers, 
alone, as of May l, 
1919—the beginning of 
a fiscal year. On that 
date they totalled 178,- 
875, while the number 











Freezing room in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ice plant 


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Ice making equipment in a typical plant. Marshall, Texas, plant interior 


served on August 31, 1923 exceeded 343,000, showing customers practi- 
cally doubled in four years. 

The Middle West and subsidiary companies in 1917 had about 6,000 
stockholders. On August 31, 1923, there were more than 47,000 stock- 
holders. 

The customers’ connected load at the close of the year 1917 was 
293,500 horsepower. Five years later it was 715,902 horsepower. 

The electricity output for the year 1918 was 254,261,162 kilowatt 
hours. In 1922 it was 711,950,821 kilowatt hours. 

The increase during this period in the amount of electricity produced 
was nearly two and one-half times as great as the increase in number of elec- 
tric customers. This indicates the rapidly growing use of electricity by 
present customers. 

















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Coal handling equipment at Mounds (Ill.) plant of the Central Illinois Public Service Company 


The Middle West Utilities 
Investment 


N investment of $175,000,000 in property is a sizable sum even 
in these days of thinking in huge figures. 


This represents in round figures the investment in the operating 
companies comprising the Middle West Utilities Company. 


Of the total, nearly $40,000,000 represents the increase in plant ac- 
counts of the subsidiary companies for construction, alone, during the seven 
years from 1916 to 1922 inclusive. 

The Middle West Utilities Company holds more than a mere control 
of each of its subsidiaries. 

The growth of the properties appears even more notable when it is 
recalled that much of it took place during the war years, when the operat- 
ing and management problems were most acute. 





Railroad icing platform, Mounds (Ill.) ice plant of the Central Illinois Public Service Company 


PAGE FIFTEEN 








Power and ice plant, Henryetta, Oklahoma, of the Oklahoma Power Company 


The Middle West Utilities Company was organized May 15, 1912, and 
therefore, except in the first two years of its existence, had to face war 
conditions, originally those arising before the United States was actually en- 
gaged in the conflict, and later those incident to the nation’s active participa- 
tion in the war and to the reconstruction period. 

At the time of the issuance of the first annual report dated April 30, 
1913, there were 274 communities with a population of between 800,000 and 
900,000 being served, and the battle for improvement of operating condi- 
tions by the inter-connection of properties and the replacement of the num- 
erous inefficient and obsolete plants was at its height. 

In 1914, a total of 333 communities in 10 states were served. The 
total increased to 355 communities in 1916, and through the war and post- 
war years a steady growth has been maintained. 

Something of the story can be traced in terms of gross earnings per 
capita. 

The $4.60 per capita earnings for 1912 represented about what might 








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Exterior of Central Illinois Public Service Company’s, Lincoln (lll.), ice plant 


be expected from small, inefficient plants with high operating costs and 
little ability to render attractive service. 


The improvement in service and growth of facilities to give service can 
be traced in the increase in earnings per capita, which in 1922 were $19, or 
more than four times the gross earnings per capita in 1912. These figures 
also tell the story of education and thoughtful attention to the needs of the 
population served. 


The number of customers served with electrical energy, gas and water 
now runs to the huge total of 440,000. 


The remarkable growth of the electrical energy sales has been men- 
tioned. The most interesting figure, however, is the growth of power de- 
mands as represented by motors connected. In 1916, about 38 per cent of 
the connected load was for power purposes. This had been increased to 51.5 
per cent by 1922. 


An extraordinary feature, also, is the percentage of kilowatt hours sold 














Central Illinois Public Service Company’s ice plant at Springfield, Illinois 


PAGE SEVENTEEN 


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Coal crane, Muddy power station, of the Central Illinois Public Service Company 


credited to power demands, indicating the increased use of electricity by 
power customers. Whereas, it was only 59 per cent of the total in 1916, it 
has risen to more than 80 per cent in 1922. This is significant of the growth 
of business in the territory and also of the fact that not only has the organiza- 
tion eliminated inefficient central stations but that it has been instrumental 
in displacing inefficient isolated industrial plants and in preventing the 
building of new ones. The figures also indicate the direction in which the 
greatest service to the communities is being performed. 

Another significant fact is that the margin between energy produced 
and purchased and the sales, after eliminating company use, has been re- 
duced from 24 per cent in 1916 to a little more than 15 per cent in 1922, 
pointing toward the material betterment in the adjustment of physical prop- 
erty to operating conditions. 

It is interesting that in 1922, a total of 188,627,856 kilowatt hours, 
or 39.1 per cent of the total amount generated by the subsidiaries’ own 
plants, came from water power. 

















St. Bernard Coal Company plant at Earlington, Kentucky, whose output is contracted for by 
the Kentucky Utilities Company 


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Power and ice plant, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, at Tulsa, Oklahoma 


Policies Responsible 
ox Good Service 


HE success of the management of an organization like the Middle West 
Utilities Company depends on the adjustment of policies to the needs 
of the communities served. 


Policies that might be adequate in the conduct of a property serving a 
community of equivalent size, gathered into a single compact unit, would be 
totally inadequate because in the main they would be based on the ability 
of a single community to demand and pay for service that an equal popula- 
tion widely scattered would be unable to use. 




















Norway, Indiana, hydro-electric plant operated by the Interstate Public Service Company 


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MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 











Nebraska City Utilities Company’s electric and water station at Nebraska City, Nebraska 


There are nearly 700 communities in the groups directly comprising 
the Middle West Utilities properties. Included in this number are cities 
that support industrial projects of large proportions. Their needs demand 
the best of specialized skill in the operation of the central station supplying 
their power requirements. At the other extreme is the community which, 
left to itself, could command only the barest elements of service, and that 
for only a few hours a day. Consideration and adoption of policies there- 
fore must necessarily be nicely balanced between the two extremes to avoid 
neglect of either one. 


With the increase in the physical efficiency of the properties, due to 
the linking up of the original separate units, and the improving of the power 
supply by increasing the size and efficiency of generating units and utilizing 
the diversity of demand that must exist in a group of communities, there 
naturally comes a corresponding improvement in the management policies 
over those that the separate small units could hope to enjoy. 














Illinois Northern Utilities Company’s steam generating station at Dixon, Illinois 


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Diversified customers of American Public Service Company. Corn, cotton and oil fields in 


Oklahoma 


Increased service, such as that involved in aiding customers in the 
best and most efficient use of their power supply, means an increase in ex- 
pense that can only be given in a small way to a single community. Group- 
ing of such communities, however, means that it is possible to provide for a 
large group the expert service that until recent years has been available only 
to large compact properties serving large cities. 

The Middle West Utilities Company, through its large resources, is able 
to place engineering and commercial assistance at the disposal of its operat- 
ing companies and also aid in their proper financing. 

The first important item in the policy of the Middle West Utilities 
Company lies in the fact that management is local. The community served 
does not look beyond the officials within its own range of view for the hand- 
ling of problems that arise. As a result these men become a part of the 
community life and not mere figureheads through whom the public must 
deal with some far-off intangible organization. 

This policy is the foundation for the successful handling of problems, 





Silica Works, Oregon, Illinois, an Illinois Northern Utilities Company customer 


PAGE TWENTY-ONE 


MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 














Banner Fork mine in Harlan County, Kentucky, one of the many mines operated by power 
purchased from the Kentucky Utilities Company 


for the men in contact with their customers have the power to deal finally 
and effectively on a personal basis with those who know and respect them. 
These men have the entire resources of the Middle West Utilities Com- 
pany organization at their command for advice and assistance in determin- 
ing policies that fit specific conditions. 

Backing this policy is a commercial organization so worked out that 
each group has available expert advisers at all times. 

An item of prime importance in 
the commercial policy is provision in 
every office, no matter how small, for 
an attractive merchandise display. 
These offices are the most important 
point of contact with the public and 
a consistent policy of establishing 
attractive offices has been followed. 

The possibilities of rural serv- 
ice in the agricultural territory is a 
tremendous field for increased busi- 
ness. Already a large number of 
farm customers are being served. 

One important practice in rural 
service followed largely by the Mid- 
dle West Utilities subsidiaries is to 
provide the farmer with all appara- 
tus that he can profitably use when 
service is first established. The farm 
power equipment, household appli- 
ances and wiring, as well as the line 
and transformer equipment, are in- 
cluded, so far as possible, in the orig- 
inal proposition, so that proper equip- 
ment, safe wiring and a generally 
successful installation will be pro- 





Switching tower of the Electric Transmission 
Company of Virginia in the southwest Vir- ~~ 
ginia coal fields vided. 


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Electric mine locomotive with coal cars leaving the mines of the W. G. Duncan Coal Company 
in western Kentucky, a Kentucky Utilities Company customer 


Loyal Employes 
Big Racha 


LARGE measure of the success of the operating companies is attribu- 

table to the loyal co-operation of their employes, who, in addition to 

giving constant attention to furnishing reliable, uninterrupted serv- 
ice, are well aware of the value of maintaining satisfactory relations be- 
tween the companies, their customers and the communities served. 


The management is alive to the value of acquainting the employes 
who come in contact with customers with the details of company operation. 
Meetings are held for the instruction of all such employes. 


A women’s public information committee was formed in 1922 for 
the specific purpose of stimulating the interest of women employes in the 
utility business and assisting them in further informing themselves regard- 
ing the business with which they are identified and in disseminating that 
information among the customers for utility service. The work of this 
committee has been exceedingly successful and is being constantly enlarged. 


A public relations department carries on intensive work in the entire 
organization, its task being that of bringing about the best relations between 
customers and their service companies. Each company has a man definitely 
assigned to furthering pleasant relations with customers. 


The Middle West Utilities organization has been very active in the 
profit-sharing customer-ownership movement. 


The subsidiary companies, during the last three or four years, have 
provided a large part of their capital requirements through the sale of their 
prior lien and preferred stocks to customers within the field of their activities. 
The increase in number of stockholders of the Middle West and subsidiary 
companies from 6,000 to 47,000 was chiefly due to this policy. This 
method of financing has been a valuable aid in maintaining favorable public 
relations. The greater number of employes are stockholders. 


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One of the large impounding reservoirs of Muddy power station, with a capacity of 
three hundred and twenty million gallons of water 


Description of 
Constituent Properties 


The following pages give in brief form a more detailed description of 
the activities of the principal subsidiary operating companies: 


The Illinois Group 


NE of the most extensive power transmission systems in the world is 
owned and operated by the CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE 
COMPANY. Its high tension wires reach across the state of IlIli- 

nois, from the Keokuk dam on the Mississippi river to the Indiana line. 

The company has in service 1,600 miles of high voltage transmission 

lines radiating throughout the 14,000 square miles of territory served and, 
as of August 31, 1923, inter-connecting 213 communities. It had, as of that 
date, a total of 112,500 customers, of whom 97,000 were purchasers of 
electricity. 








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Pumping station of the Hartwell Drainage and Levee District. Eleven thousand acres reclaimed. 
Energy furnished by the Central Illinois Public Service Company 

Of particular interest is the tremendous coal mining power business 
now being done and contracted for by this company in the great coal fields 
of southern and central Illinois, where the company now serves 107 active 
mines. 

Although the company is now furnishing approximately 48,000 horse- 
power to serve its coal mining power customers, the present connected 
business amounts to barely 32 per cent of the total. amount of business 
of this character within easy reach of its transmission lines. 

In its own stations, and through its contracts for the purchase of 
power, there is available to the company a total capacity of 85,000 horse- 
power. The total connected load on the company’s system, however, aggre- 
gates over 177,000 horsepower, which can be served by the capacity avail- 
able because of the diversity of the company’s business. 

To enable it to take on additional coal mining and other business 
the company will shortly have available the output of another great steam 
electric generating station in course of construction on the Mississippi river 
at Grand Tower in southern Illinois. The initial capacity of this power 
plant will be more than 53,000 horsepower, and the present plans call for 
ultimate generating facilities of two and one-half times that size. 

















Turbine room, Muddy power station, 25,000 kilowatts capacity 


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Architect’s sketch of Central Illinois Public Service Company’s power station, at Grand Tower, 
Illinois, in process of construction 


Fifteen ice plants are operated, with total daily ice making capacity 
of 844 tons, supplying approximately all ice requirements of more than 40 
communities. The output of the large plants at Mounds and Centralia, with 
daily capacity of 200 and 160 tons respectively, is depended on for icing 
fruit and meat cars on the Illinois Central railroad. The Centralia plant 
was acquired at the beginning of the 1923 ice season, as were also other 
large plants in Springfield and Lincoln. 


In the vicinity of Lawrenceville and Robinson are located the most 
productive oil fields in Illinois. In Crawford and Lawrence counties are 
approximately 8,000 producing oil wells. The company is rapidly increas- 
ing its business of providing electric pumping for these wells. Its trans- 
mission lines extend through the most productive part of this territory, mak- 
ing it the logical source of power for present and future developments. The 
company also furnishes large amounts of energy to oil refineries in this 
district. 


Aside from the cities and towns, industrial plants and coal mines 
served, the company also provides the electrical energy requirements of a 
territory comprising 
some of the best agri- 
cultural sections, not 
only of the state, but of 
the entire Middle West. 


Included in this area 
are more than 160,000 
acres of rich alluvial 
soil extending south- 
ward from Havana 
along the Illinois river 
for a distance of 80 
miles. This land, being 
subject each spring to 
overflow from the river, 
must be drained. The 
greater portion of it is 


Engine room of Central illinois Public Service Company’s Led made extremely 
plant at Mounds, Illinois productive through the 








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use of electric pumps, the energy being furnished by the company. 


THE ILLINOIS NORTHERN UTILITIES COMPANY serves the rich 
dairy and corn belt in the northwestern section of Illinois, sixteen counties 
being included in its territory. A substantial power business is provided by 
the many and varied industries in a large number of communities located 
almost within the Chicago manufacturing district. 


Rural service has reached an advanced stage of development in the 
territory and is rapidly becoming a large source of additional revenue to 
the company. 

The company’s principal steam generating station is located at Dixon, 
and there are hydro-electric plants at Oregon, Dixon and the government 
dam at Sterling on the Rock River and on the Pecatonica river at Free- 
port. In addition, the company purchases energy from a number of sources 
under favorable long term contracts. 

The company’s properties include 5 steam generating plants, 3 hydro- 
electric generating plants, 3 combination steam and hydro plants and 7 gas 
plants. The company 
owns 606.3 miles of 


transmission lines. 





It serves 76 communi- 
ties with electric light 
and power, 9 with gas 
and | with transporta- 
tion service, as well as 
operating an interurban 
line between Sterling 
and Dixon. 


In 1918, it had an 
output of 21,096,516 
kilowatt hours of elec- 
trical energy. In 1922, 
it had grown to 35,360,- 
839, Output of gas in 
1918 was 227,255,000 
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with 272,983,000 cubic Utilities Company, Sterling, Illinois 


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the end of 1922. 
The Indiana Group 
HE INTERSTATE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY furnishes electric- 


ity to 103 Indiana cities and villages, retailing service in 65 com- 

munities and wholesaling in 38. Of the communities, 12 are also pro- 
vided with gas, 9 with water, 6 with street railway service, 2 with heat, 
and the cities and towns between Indianapolis, Ind., and Louisville, Ky., with 
high-speed electric railroad service. ; 

The territory served is well diversified, including, as it does, the rich 
agricultural district in the northwestern part of the state, served largely 
by the company’s hydro-electric plant located on the banks of the historical 
Tippecanoe river at Monticello, and a progressive industrial territory in 
the central part of the state and extending south to the Ohio river. 

Industrial activity is especially marked in the production of auto- 
mobiles, farm implements, furniture, cement, flour, canned goods, and build- 
ing materials. 


Gas plant of the Illinois Northern Utilities Company, Sterling, Illinois 


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Power plant of the Interstate Public Service Company, Shelbyville, Indiana 


New Castle is the home of the well-known Hoosier kitchen cabinet, and 
one of the larger factories of the Maxwell Automobile Company. Lebanon 
produces many widely used automobile parts, such as the Indestructible 
wheel. Seymour boasts of the largest flour mills in the state. Bloomington 
enjoys the activity of Showers Brothers Company’s mammoth furniture 
factory. Bedford is located in the heart of the world-famous Oolitic lime- 
stone industry. Jeffersonville is benefited through the operation there of 
one of the largest United States Army quartermaster depots in the Middle 
West. New Albany is constantly adding new lines to its already extensive 
industrial activities. 


Supplying the demand for power in the limestone industry centering 
about Bedford and Bloomington is an important part of the company’s 
business. The use of Indiana limestone in all the worthier sorts of build- 
ings has steadily increased for many years, until to-day substantial pro- 
portions of the monumental buildings of all classes throughout the country 
are built of it. The company supplies energy for a large number of mills 





Indiana Quarries Company, Bedford, Indiana, an Interstate Public Service Company customer 


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Main Street, New Castle, Indiana, one of the many cities served by the Interstate Public 
Service Company 

where the stone is sawed and prepared for shipment, as well as for most 

of the quarries in the Bedford-Bloomington district. 

The physical property operated by the company includes electric gen- 
erating stations with a combined capacity of 30,000 horsepower, 670 miles 
of high tension transmission line, 69 transformer stations, 8 artificial gas 
plants, 2 natural gas properties, 8 city water works, 24 miles of street 
railway and 122 miles of interurban line with modern switching, signalling 
and substation equipment. 

Through its activity in the construction of transmission systems, the 
company has eliminated the necessity of operating many small isolated 
plants, reducing maintenance and operating costs to a minimum and insur- 
ing most efficient uninterrupted service. By the construction of this net- 
work of connecting lines, the company has been enabled to close a number 
of very advantageous contracts for economic interchange of power with other 
operating companies. 

The company recently purchased 105 acres of land on the north bank 
of the Ohio river at Jeffersonville, Indiana, and will erect a steam power 
station of large capacity. This plant will feed into the present Interstate 
transmission system and will be tied in, by means of new high tension lines, 











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Bloomington (Ind.) substation of the Interstate Public Service Company 


with large power sources now being developed in Kentucky by other Middle 
West Utilities subsidiaries. 

One of the most efficient and prosperous electric railway systems in the 
country is operated by the Interstate Company. The main interurban divis- 
ion connects Indianapolis with Louisville, Kentucky, and serves a large 
number of prosperous and thriving communities. 


An idea of the large amount of freight tonnage moved on this road 
is gained from the fact that it has handled in a single month 320 carloads 
of cement alone. 

Freight earnings have grown within 6 years from 5 per cent to 42 per 
cent of the total railway revenue, and at the same time earnings from pas- 
senger service also increased. 


The company is adding a large number of new cars, and with the com- 
pletion of a new union interurban freight terminal in Indianapolis, the 
freight traffic of this road is expected to be doubled. 


An analysis of the freight hauled indicates a steady gain in carload 
shipments. The fast freight service is especially valuable for shippers of 
berries, fruits and other perishable products grown in southern Indiana. 
A berry special is run at night in the berry season. The road is well 
equipped with cattle pens, and live stock shipments to the Indianapolis 
and Louisville markets are an important part of the traffic. 











A big industrial power customer of the Interstate Public Service Company at Bloomington, Indiana 


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Electric generating station at Somerset, of the Kentucky Utilities Company 


Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee Properties 


NE not familiar with Kentucky, pictures in his mind’s eye a broad ex- 
panse of rich farm lands, acres and acres of the famous “Kentucky 
Burley,” or stables of beautiful Kentucky thoroughbreds. Few real- 

ize that a very large part of the state is mountainous and underlaid with 
some of the richest coal de- 
posits in the United States. 





A large part of the coal 
fields is served with electric- 
ity by the KENTUCKY 
UTILITIES COMPANY, 
its extensive and ever grow- 
ing system of transmission 
and distributing lines cover- 
ing wide areas. 


The Kentucky Utilities 
Company and its subsidiar- 
ies, the KENTUCKY LIGHT 
and POWER COMPANY 
and the ELECTRIC TRANS- 
MISSION COMPANY of 
VIRGINIA, own and op- 
erate public utility prop- 
erties serving 45 commun- 
ities in Kentucky, 5 in Vir- 
ginia and 3 in Tennessee, 
with one or more classes of 
public utility service, in- 
cluding 48 with electric 
light and power, 12 with 





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Electric-driven ice plant of the Kentucky Utilities Company, Middlesboro, Kentucky 


gas, and one with street railway service. 


The transmission lines traverse a large agricultural district including 
ten counties in the highly fertile “Blue Grass” region of central Kentucky. 


The companies also operate extensively in the heart of the rich coal 
mining districts of southeastern and western Kentucky and western Virginia, 
where the demand for pow- 
er is tremendous. 


Seventy-five per cent of 
all the coal-mining opera- 
tions in Bell and Harlan 
counties, Kentucky, and Lee 
and Wise counties, Virginia, 
are supplied with power. 
‘Through the wholesaling of 
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Virginia, also receive pow- 
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The properties owned in- 
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514 miles of high voltage 
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Transmission Company of Virginia, near 
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Electric Transmission Company of Virginia power plant at Pocket, Virginia 


chase of power. A very profitable ice business is done and this diversity in 
source of revenue causes the earnings to be remarkably uniform during the 
year. 


The largest power station of this group now in service is at Pocket, Vir- 
ginia, with generating capacity of 17,000 horsepower. There is now being 
constructed, however, a station of 40,000 horsepower capacity located on 
the Cumberland river near Pineville, Kentucky. The first 20,000 horse- 
power unit of this plant is expected to be completed by January 1, 1924. 


In the latter part of 1923 the KENTUCKY HYDRO ELECTRIC COM- 
PANY, another Middle West Utilities Company subsidiary, was formed for 
the purpose of erecting and developing a hydro-electric plant on the Dix 
river, two miles from where it empties into the Kentucky river at High 
Bridge, Kentucky. A dam 270 feet high will be built there and the power 
plant is expected to have a total capacity in generating units of 26,400 horse- 
power. 


The Kentucky Hydro Electric Company will have a 66,000 volt double 
circuit steel tower transmission line from the plant to Lexington, Kentucky, 
where it will deliver a portion of its output to the transmission system of 
the Kentucky Utilities Company. Another steel tower line will run from 
the hydro plant to the Ohio river at a point near Louisville, where it will 










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Oshkosh, Wisconsin, from the sky. Served by Eastern Wisconsin Electric Company’s 
electric railway system 


connect with the lines of the Interstate Public Service Company at the 
latter company’s new power plant to be erected at Jeffersonville, Indiana. 


Another Middle West Utilities subsidiary operating in Tennessee is the 
CITIZENS GAS LIGHT COMPANY, which serves the city of Jackson with 


gas. 
Wisconsin and MichigZan Groups 


A great volume of hydro-electric energy is produced by the Middle 
West Utilities properties in Wisconsin and Michigan, and this is being added 
to by the development of further valuable power sources. 


Seventy-two per cent of the present output of these companies is from 
hydro-electric power plants. 














Airplane view of hydro-electric plant, dam and spillway on the Wisconsin river near Prairie du Sac, 
Wisconsin, owned by the Wisconsin River Power Company 


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Sheboygan, Wisconsin, showing harbor in the background. Another city served by the Eastern 
Wisconsin Electric Company 


The heart of Wisconsin’s richest agricultural and dairying section is 
served by the operating companies controlled by the NORTH WEST UTIL- 
ITIES COMPANY, a subsidiary of the Middle West Utilities Company. 
This territory is also fortunate in the possession of zinc, iron ore and gran- 
ite resources, and is the home of many large and varied industries. 


Included in this group are the WISCONSIN RIVER POWER COM- 
PANY, the WISCONSIN POWER, LIGHT & HEAT CO., the EASTERN 
WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COMPANY, the SOUTHERN WISCONSIN POW- 
ER COMPANY, the MINERAL POINT PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY 
and the JANESVILLE ELECTRIC COMPANY. 


The Wisconsin River Power Company owns and operates one of the 
largest and most efficient modern hydro-electric power plants in the North- 
west. 


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Airplane view, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 


The plant, an excellent type of water power development, spans the 
Wisconsin River near Prairie du Sac. The power house is over three hun- 
dred feet long, is of brick and concrete construction, and the reinforced con- 
crete dam is more than 1,000 feet in length. 


The present plant comprises eight modern hydraulic turbines of high 
efficiency, having a total energy capacity of over 35,000 horsepower, and 
turning out nearly 100,000,000 kilowatt hours per annum. Al the neces- 
sary auxiliary apparatus, used in the control and distribution of the power 
developed, is of modern and substantial character. 


This company owns and operates over 100 miles of double-circuit 
steel-tower, 66,000-volt transmission lines, extending from Prairie du Sac 
to Portage and from Prairie du Sac, through Madison, to Janesville, as 
well as 100 miles of wood pole, high-tension transmission lines. 











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A string of interurban cars in service between Fond du Lac, Oshkosh and Neenah, Wisconsin 


The company now furnishes a substantial proportion of the power 
used for the operation of the street and interurban railways in and around 
Milwaukee, as well as the electric light and power requirements of Madison. 
In addition it supplies the total power requirements of one of the subsidi- 
aries of the General Motors 
Corporation at Janesville 
and also a large portion of 
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Steam generating plant of the Eastern Wisconsin Railway and Light Com- 
Electric Company, Sheboygan, Wisconsin — pany. 


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Sar es 


Substation at Janesville, Wisconsin, North West Utilities Company 


THE EASTERN WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COMPANY operates in the 
rich manufacturing and dairying country lying north of Milwaukee and cen- 
tering around the cities of Sheboygan, Fond du Lac and Oshkosh. It serves 
either directly or indirectly 25 communities with one or more classes of 
service, including electricity, gas and street and interurban railways. 

-The city of Fond du Lac ai 
is served with gas, and 
three communities including 
Sheboygan, Fond du Lac Y ys Yi 
and Oshkosh, are furnished ie vi SL: 
street railway service. The ih ¢ y 
company owns and _ oper- / 
ates interurban electric rail- ye 
ways connecting Sheboygan / 
with Elkhart Lake, and con- , 
necting Fond du Lac with 
Oshkosh, Neenah and Om- 
ro. 

It operates bus line serv- 
ice between Oshkosh, Nee- 
nah and Fond du Lac, and 
between Fond du Lac and 
Plymouth, thereby furnish- 
ing a direct connection be- 
tween the two interurban 
systems, and providing aux- 
iliary transportation. 

The company’s two cen- 
tral electric generating sta- 
tions are located at She- 
boygan and Fond du Lac, 
and are connected by a re- 








cently completed 66,000- Electric transmission line between Big Falls, Wis- 
1 Pris i ; Th consin, and the Gogebic iron range, serving 
volt transmission line. € cities and ore mine customers 


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Upper falls and spillway, Superior Falls, on Montreal River 


gas plant at Fond du Lac is of modern and recent construction, especially 
designed for economical and efficient operation, with rated capacity of 
600,000 cubic feet of gas daily. ; 

THE WISCONSIN POWER, LIGHT AND HEAT CO. has approxi- 
mately 300 miles of high tension transmission lines. It furnishes electricity 
directly to 27 communities, and also serves 4 cities with gas, 1 with water, 
and 2 with heat. The greater proportion of the energy distributed by this 
company is purchased from the Wisconsin River Power Company, the 
Southern Wisconsin Power Company and the Eastern Wisconsin Electric 
Company. The company owns 3 steam stations which furnish standby and 
peak-load service. 

This company completed, in 1922, a 66,000-volt transmission line from 
Dane through Columbus and Beaver Dam to Fond du Lac, a distance of 84 
miles, which has effected great economic improvement in the operation of the 
group of properties of which this company is a part. 

















General view of Ironwood substation of the Lake Superior District Power Company 


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Interior view of Ashland. steam station, Ashland, Wisconsin 


This line serves a double purpose. It furnishes the Wisconsin Power, 
Light and Heat Co. energy from the Prairie du Sac hydro-electric power 
plant of the Wisconsin River Power Company through the connection at 
Dane, and from the large, modern steam plant of the Eastern Wisconsin 
Electric Company at Sheboygan by means of the connection at Fond du 
Lac, permitting the interchange of energy by the two producing companies, 
assuring the combined territory two dependable sources of supply and ob- 
taining substantial production and distribution economies. 

THE MINERAL POINT PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY furnishes 
the electric requirements of Mineral Point and 11 other communities in 
the heart of the lead and zine mining region of southwestern Wisconsin. 
There is an increasing demand for power in this territory. 

THE JANESVILLE ELECTRIC COMPANY serves Janesville and Ed- 


gerton. The company generates in its own stations about one-half of the 











rae eh . i 5 Aiba > 


Electrically operated iron mine of Richmond Iron Mining Company, served by the Michigan 
Gas and Electric Company 


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MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 


energy that it distributes and purchases the remainder of its requirements 
from the Wisconsin River Power Company. 


An efficient Middle West property in southeastern Wisconsin is the 
SOUTHERN WISCONSIN ELECTRIC COMPANY. It serves Lake Gen- 
eva and 10 other communities in Wisconsin, and delivers electricity at 
wholesale to the MCHENRY COUNTY LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY, 
a small Middle West subsidiary located nearby in Illinois. The Southern 
Wisconsin company’s entire energy supply is purchased under wholesale 
contract. 

The territory served by the Southern Wisconsin Electric Company in- 
cludes one of the richest farming and dairying sections in the entire country. 


As an instance of the diversity of its business, the company now sup- 
plies electric service to more than sixty dairy farms, which, in addition to 
the usual power requirements of rural customers, use current for the milk- 
ing of 1,800 cows twice daily. 

Also in this territory are the well-known Geneva and Delavan Lakes, 
on whose shores are many costly homes and popular summer resorts. Sup- 
plying electric service to these lake colonies provides a large source of rev- 
enue to the company. 


Eighty-five per cent of the power produced by the LAKE SUPERIOR 
DISTRICT POWER COMPANY is generated by its hydro-electric stations. 
The territory served by the company lies in northeastern Wisconsin and 
northwestern Michigan. It extends for 70 miles along Lake Superior and 
within it is the great iron mining district known as the Gogebic range. 
The company serves Ashland, Hurley and Ladysmith, Wis., and Ironwood, 
Bessemer and Wakefield, Mich., together with 13 other communities. It 
furnishes power to a large number of iron mines on the Gogebic range. 
The territory furnishes an 
ideal market for the sale of 
electrical energy. 





The iron range of the 
Lake Superior district is 
one of the principal sources 
of ore supply for the iron 
and steel industries of the 
United States. Gogebic ore 
is of the best grade and 
very desirable from a met- 
allurgical standpoint. The 
company’s business in the 
Gogebic range with the min- 
ing companies consists pri- 
marily in furnishing power 
for hoisting, pumping, air 
compressors and under- 
ground hauling. 


The nature of the power 
demand is such that the 
maximum amount of hydro- 
electric power can be util- 
ized, since the mining load 


Saxon Falls, a power development on Montreal River is continuous throughout the 





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' the mining load, 





Business center, Lexington, Missouri, one of the cities served by the Missouri Gas and 
Electric Service Company 
24 hours. This means maximum output from the water powers at minimum 
initial cost. The company completed, during 1922, an important hydraulic 
development on the Flambeau river at Big Falls, Wisconsin, and delivers its 
product to the iron range over its new 66,000-volt, double-circuit, steel 
tower transmission line, 87 miles in length. 

THE MICHIGAN GAS and ELECTRIC COMPANY manufactures and 
distributes gas in the copper country at Hancock and Houghton; furnishes 
electric, gas and railway service in the iron country in and about Ishpem- 
ing and Negaunee, and serves with electricity a group of 15 communities 
in a prosperous manufacturing and farming section of southern Michigan, 
one of which—Three Rivers—is also served with gas. 

A few of the larger industries that look to the company for electrical 
energy are the Sheffield plant of Fairbanks, Morse and Company at Three 
Rivers; paper mills of the Eddy Paper Company and others at White 
Pigeon, Constantine 
and Three Rivers; 
the great stove 
works of the Beck- 
with Company at 
Dowagiac, and in 
the northern  divi- 
sion, in addition to 





power is furnished 
for an important 
stone quarrying and 
crushing industry. 


Within a very 
few years, the com- 
pany has constructed 
and put into suc- 
cessful operation a 
highly efficient 








ms] 
Bes Interior of hydro plant at Constantine, of the Michigan Gas 
transmission system and Electric Company 





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MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 





Central Power Company’s hydro-electric plant at Boelus, Nebraska 





comprising over 150 miles of high tension lines. In the southern and larger 
group of communities receiving service, the sytem is constructed to permit 
transmission of energy from two sources to practically every community 


served. 


Missouri Group 
A prosperous agricultural and coal mining section in the Missouri 


River valley is served by the MISSOURI GAS AND ELECTRIC SERVICE 





-——————— 








Central Power Company’s steam-electric plant at 
Grand Island, Nebraska 





COMPANY. 

Lexington, Richmond, 
Liberty and 25 other com- 
munities receive electric ser- 
vice, and gas service is fur- 
nished in Marshall and Lex- 
ington, and ice in the former 
city. The largest power de- 
mand comes from the coal 
mining industry. 


Nebraska Properties 


Large ranches in the val- 
ley of the Platte, and 19 
communities centering about 
Grand Island and Kearney, 
Nebraska, are served by the 
CENTRAL POWER COM- 
PANY. 

In addition, the company 
wholesales energy for dis- 
tribution in 25 other com- 
munities. The territory is 
largely agricultural, with 
some thriving industries in 
the larger communities. 
Ranches of many thousands 


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Hydro-electric plant, Chickasha Gas and Electric Company, Chickasha, Oklahoma 


of acres each have power demands equal to those of important industries. 
Grain mills and elevators, alfalfa mills, irrigation and other activities in- 
cident to farming and cattle raising create a large and growing demand 
for energy. 


The properties of the NEBRASKA CITY UTILITIES COMPANY serve 
Nebraska City with electricity, gas and water. A transmission system, con- 
structed during the past two years, furnishes energy directly to 4 additional 
communities and indirectly to 12 others. 


Oklahoma and Texas Groups 


Twenty-two years after the discovery of America, Spanish adventurers 
in search of gold entered the territory now served by the Texas and Okla- 





ES ecateerac j 








Electric and ice plant, West Texas Utilities Company, Cisco, Texas, an American Public 
Service Company property 


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MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 











Electrically operated ice plant, West Texas Utilities Company, Hamlin, Texas 


homa subsidiary operating companies of Middle West Utilities Company. 


Unknowingly, the gold seekers hastened through a section destined to 
produce more wealth than their wildest imagination could conceive. The 
output of the oil and gas fields alone in this territory during the past 
20 years has exceeded in value the products of all the gold mines of the 
North American continent during the same period. Besides, this important 
part of the great Southwest has extensive coal fields and many other natural 
mineral resources of great value. 


The agricultural possibilities of this richly endowed region also stand 
out as a predominant feature. The territory is adapted to diversified crops. 
Cotton, corn, wheat, oats, broom corn, alfalfa, sorghum, peanuts, fruit and 
many other crops are profitably grown. 


The development of the great and varied natural wealth of this section 
has brought to the territory many industries, and supplying them with 
electrical energy provides a substantial part of the companies’ business. 








as 





Turbine room, Tulsa (Okla.) power station, Oklahoma Power Company 


PAGE FIFTY 


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i 











Marshall (Texas) plant, American Public Service Company 


Smelters, glass plants, oil refineries, cotton gins and mills are some of the 
industries that create a large and growing demand for power. 

The PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF OKLAHOMA carries on a 
large electric and ice business in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the “‘wonder city of the 
Southwest.” Tulsa had 1,390 inhabitants in 1900, while today its popula- 
tion is 100,000 and continues to grow very rapidly. 

The company serves directly 13 additional communities with electricity, 
and 8 with ice—Guthrie, Vinita, Nowata and Atoka being among those 
served. Coal mines are furnished energy in the Coalgate field. 

The company’s ice plant in Tulsa is one of the largest in the entire 
Middle West system, and this coupled with the protracted demand afforded 
by the long Oklahoma summers gives it the greatest annual output of any 


of the Middle West ice plants. 
The CHICKASHA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY serves Chick- 


asha with electricity and natural gas, and furnishes electric service by 
transmission line to 5 other communities. The company has a steam gen- 








ee a 


Skyline, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Served by the Public Service Company of Oklahoma 


cd 





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MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 











A cotton compress company, Chickasha, Oklahoma, a Chickasha Gas and Electric 
Company customer 


erating station in Chickasha and a hydro-electric power plant on the Wash- 
ita river nearby. 
The AMERICAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY’S subsidiaries 


include three important groups of properties in Texas and Oklahoma. 


Subsidiaries of this company serve more than 50 communities with 
one or more classes of service including electric light and power, gas, 
water, railway and ice. Its plants include some of the largest elec- 
tricity supply central stations in the Southwest. 

While electricity supply is the large part of the company’s busi- 
ness, its subsidiaries operate ice plants in 11 communities, and there are 
shipping and storage facilities in nearly all the other cities and towns 
served. 

Gross earnings increased from $1,163,183 in 1919, to $2,850,229 
in 1922. There were 123 miles of transmission lines in operation in 
1918, as against 461 miles at the end of 1922. 


THE WEST TEXAS UTILITIES furnish one or more classes of serv- 


ice to 32 communities centering about Abilene, Tex., 31 receiving electric 





Public Service Company o1 Oklahoma, transmission line across Arkansas River 
near Tulsa, Oklahoma 


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Hydro-electric plant and dam of Twin State Gas and Electric Company, Brattleboro, Vermont 


service, 23 ice, 2 gas and 3 railway service. Practically the entire group is 
connected to the transmission system radiating from the company’s mod- 
ern, efficient steam station at Abilene. A large ice business is done by this 
group. 

THE EAST TEXAS PROPERTIES are centered about Marshall, Tex., 
where the largest steam power station and ice plant of this group are lo- 
cated. Five communities in East Texas are served. 


THE OKLAHOMA POWER COMPANY, the only Oklahoma subsidiary 
of the American Public Service Company, serves Okmulgee, Henryetta, Hugo 
and 12 other communities. The company has a heavy industrial power 
business in these towns aside from the energy demands growing out of the 
oil business. Here again, coal mining power is supplied. 


The company has, on the Arkansas river at West Tulsa, a modern 
20,000 kilowatt steam generating station, now being increased to 30,000 
kilowatts capacity. Besides being the chief source of power for the com- 
pany, this station furnishes energy for the Tulsa requirements of the 
Public Service Company of Oklahoma. 





One of the plants at St. Johnsbury, Vermont 


PYA,G EP Fol PT Yo HR EE 


MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 

















tae 








Twin State Gas and Electric Company’s generating plant at Dover, New Hampshire 


Properties in New England 


The varied industries of a group of states long noted as an industrial 
region are served by the New England properties. The shoe and leather 
industry, textiles, metal working and miscellaneous manufacturing plants 
together with the companion industries that go with all these activities are 
among the customers of the TWIN STATE GAS AND ELECTRIC COM- 
PANY and the BERWICK AND SALMON FALLS ELECTRIC COMPANY. 


These companies serve 21,000 electric and 4,800 gas customers in 50 
communities, of which 23 communities are in New Hampshire, 14 in Ver- 
mont, 9 in the southwestern part of Maine and 4 in southeastern New York. 


This territory reaches into the heart of the White Mountains of New 
Hampshire and the Green Mountains of Vermont, including one of the 
most beautiful and historical parts of the United States. The great moun- 
tain ranges are not noted merely for their scenic beauty. Their streams 
and water falls have been harnessed to provide power of great commercial 
value. The companies have 8 hydro-electric stations in operation, the 
only steam generating plants in this group being held as standby sources of 
power. 


The growth of many of the towns in this section compares quite favor- 
ably with that of similar communities in the Middle West, both in in- 
dustrial activity and population. 


Rapid growth is reflected in the companies’ increased electric busi- 
ness. The number of customers for electric service on May 1, 1916, was 
10,403. The number had grown to 21,232 customers by August 31, 1923. 
The kilowatt hour output to customers in 1922 was 33,889,634, compared 
with 17,004,223 kilowatt hours in 1916, or an increase of 99.3 per cent. 


PEAY Gi Bil REY ss bOlUaR 


ESSENTIAL SERVICE IN FIFTEEN STATES 


Middle West Utilities Operating Companies’ Gross Earn- 
ings Per Capita by Years 


ended Gross Earnings Population Gross Earnings 
Dec. 31 of Subsidiaries Served Per Capita 
LO pen te Wee ee $ 3,680,676.76 800,000 $4.60 
LG Eee eee eee 7,345,350.73 900,000 8.15 
LO VANS ren ae 7,634,745.29 917,000 8.35 
IRON ES Wide ees LenS 8,091,148.62 929,000 8.70 
1 Ome a Ae Se tin Sie 9,620,216.13 1,055,300 9.10 
18.0 ly po Lonen st eben mamietirmis IA) bey lel aye 1,208,800 10.05 
| © 1 tS emer ne eee eee os 14,641,035.34 1,297,150 AML PAS 
1D EO Ries ee eee ree 19,362,673.74 1,309,900 14.80 
1 920 sete era pees Zeek 2092210 1,336,200 17.00 
LS) Lanner erie ee eeene re 26,348,234.05 1,419,500 18.50 
AAS PAs Re Ae retools Tees) 29,870,701.59 1,575,900 19.00 


Electric, Gas and Water Customers Served by Middle 
West Utilities Operating Companies 





ended Number of Customers Served 

Dec. 31 Electric Gas Water Total 
IG 2 eee 105,571 37,168 14,500 OLeeO°, 
19 1 Ogee eee, 124,158 39,079 16,097 179,334 
1 Ol eee ee 143,842 44,782 17,548 206,172 
LOL GB yee es 166,051 47,352 20,681 234,084 
LD | Depart oes ere 199,857 92,184 22,300 274,341 
POZO Pee ee eae: 226,094 04,500 24,064 304,658 
102 See een ee 262,361 96,187 25,681 344,229 


O22 ee ee ee 296,798 64,811 27,038 388,647 





MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES 
RATIO TO GROSS INCOME, OF CAPITALIZATION IN HANDS OF PUBLIC 


1915 $7.65 
1916 $7.19 
1917 $6.58 











POA GES RI ET Yr VE 





MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 


oe, GROWTH OF MIDDLE W 
FROM APRIL 30, 191¢ 


STATE 
OPERATING SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES 
Central Illinois Public Service Company. ....cccccsconneenn Illinois 
ack pOrnern ies Company: t ee ee Illinois 
terling, Dixon & Eastern Elec. Ry. Co. 
McHenry County Light & Power Company... eee Illinois 
Interstate Public Service Company....__.___.._— Indiana 
Kentucky. ulities: Company 222 eee Kentucky 
Kentucky. Light & Power Company. = Kentucky 
Citizens| Gas: Light Company2-.60 ee ee Tennessee 
Electric Transmission Company of Virginia... Virginia 
American Public Service Company...:.-ccccccccec--- Sauer Oklahoma and Texas 
Public Service Company of Oklahoma... ccccceccceceeceeeen Oklahoma 
Chickasha Gas & Electric Commpanny.i.e:ccccecscvsecscvsevecrieeesntm oe Oklahoma 
Missouri Gas & Electric Service Compamy..-cccccccennene Missouri 
Central: Power (Compan yiaues 222 ee ee: Nebraska 
Nebraska City Utilities Compara yin eaeeeee ence eee Nebraska 
Southern Wisconsin Electric Company. .....c-ccccccccceceececeneeenenen Wisconsin 
North «West Utilines Company eee Wisconsin 
Michigan Gas’ & Electric Company... Michigan 
City Gas: Gompany..c6ia oe ee ee ee, Michigan 
Lake Superior District Power Commpany.iie:ccccecscsicescscectseeene Wisconsin and Michigan 
Revie & SalaoksFela Fo New England 


PrA Gees FeleRil, Yo=iS 5b 








Number of Com- 
munities Di- ; 
rectly Served Electric 


1916 1923 1916 1923 


a | | 


— 4 _— 4 
38 65 34 64 
21 Lt 21 at 
— 4 — 4 
Ss) 5 5 5 
— 52 — 50 
8 16 8 14 
2 6 2 6 
9 23 9 22 
— 19 — 19 
1 5 1 5 
i 10 a 10 
= 55 _- 54 
9 23 9 20 
= 1 Solin a 
sar 19 — 19 
31 50 31 50 


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Sl UTILITIES COMPANY O 
mOPAUGUST 31, 1923 


CLASSES OF SERVICE ESTIMATED POPU- 

Gas Water Ice Heat Railway PS a 

1916 1923 1916 1923 1916 1923 1916 1923 1916 1923 1916 1923 
6 9 11 12 14 16 13 4 6 6 315,700 440,000 
9 9 — i 1 aa 3 1 2 3 132,200 136,400 
sae a 2 a = = = -- = _ oo 1,700 
9 12 ‘| 9 4 = 5 2 5 6 159,300 206,800 
1 1 3 6 5 11 — — i\ 1 61,400 110,000 
e a =, 1 ne 1 su! = = oa, bows 14,000 
= 1 ae = mk ae = ee _ zs = 21,000 
ae ‘al oad _ = ms = = ~ = 6,100 7,800 
— 2 _ _—_ — 34, — — pee 3 = 145,000 
aa — ae = 4 8 — = = = 53,200 140,000 
1 1 si = = = — = =n = 13,400 13,900 
2 2 = = = 1 — — = at 23,500 28,200 
a l me = <— =. — = zo a 33,000 
1 1 1 1 = — — = a = 6,900 7,400 
cs ae sak toa = = a = _ on 11,300 17,500 
= 5 = 1 te _ — 2 — 3 = 235,500 
3 6 = — a — — — 1 1 38,200 63,000 
Be. 1 Am = _ = = ae = = = 13,000 
ae 1 = = = = = = ae 5 ee: 52,000 
3 3 iii = = — — — 1 1 107,800 121,200 
35 55 22 30 28 71 21 9 16 29 929,000 1,807,400 


PAGE FIFTY-SEVEN 


MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES COMPANY 


Sources of Gross Earnings of Middle West Utilities 
Company Subsidiaries for the Year 1922 


Per Cent 

Gross Earnings ~ of’ Total 

Electric 22-2 ee ee ee $19,437,339 65.0 
GOS sie Te Fes See, ee ee 2,139,503 fe 
WW ater il ho x ee 678,567 2.3 
Railway-cegec oe ite ate 2,814,358 9.4. 
Heat, 2 Sitesi eee ee eee eee 156,740 0.5 
| Cr eanaeenniaeeeee ee ear eater SOU MRT Se aI 1,813,264 6.1 
Mercantile ssc ie ee eh 1,523,238 5.1 
Miscellaneous non-operating ....---ecccc--eec 1,307,693 4.4 

Total 22 26 eee ee ee ee $29,870,702 100.0% 


Income from Electric Energy Sales by Middle West 
Subsidiaries 1916-1922 


1922 1921 1920 1919 1918 1917 1916 

Commercial 

lighting $ 9,050,217 $ 7,703,416 $ 6,645,906 $ 5,217,113 $4,066,950 $3,400,533 $2,842,877 
Commercial 

power 3,037,697 3,295,482 3,062,948 2,358,415 1,683,111 1,195,437 1,174,866 
Municipal 

lighting 1,165,482 992,358 914,350 873,757 805,584 747,320 674,202 
Municipal 

power 336,212 213,814 195,776 163,868 109,777 81,279 73,611 


Sales to other 

public util. 2,131,215 1,869,746 1,524,061 1,200,659 361,576 259,821 212,671 
Wholesale 

light and 

power 3,640,497 1,642,907 1,252,130 844,918 643,284 321,460 a 
Steam Sales 

and Mis- 

cellaneous 76,019 66,405 27,530 28,139 23,123 13,423 8,250 





Total $19,437,339 $15,784,128 $13,622,701 $10,686,869 $7,693,405 $6,019,273 $4,986,477 


*Included in commercial power. 


Sources of Electric Energy of Middle West Subsidiaries 


Hydro- Steam Sources of 
Steam Electric Standby Total Purchased 
Plants Stations Stations Stations Power 
[littoig#@.2s oerer es eee, 9 6 16 ail 11 
Wisconsin =) fr cn ee 6 12 6 24. 10 
lndianagee ee ee 8 5 8 Zz fd 
Kentucky—Virginia _........ 9 — 8 Ay 5) 
Oklahoma—Texas .................... 1l — 7 18 Pe 
Nebraskas et S62 eee 3 i — 5 — 
Missouri 22 es be ee — — 3 ‘34 1 
Michigan 2 ees 2 ps —- 4 24 
New England j_.. — 8 5 13 6 
Total <2 2 ee 48 3h) ao 136 44, 





PAGE FIFTY-EIGHT 


Key:—E.—Electricity. 


ILLINOIS 


Town 


Adair 
Adeline 
Alden 
Aledo 
Alexis 
Alpha 
Alsey 
Amboy 
Anna 
Arcola 
Arrowsmith 
Arthur 
Ashkum 
Ashland 
Ashmore 
Ashton 
Assumption 
Astoria 
Athens 
Auburn 
Augusta 
Baileyville 
Banner 
Bardolph 
Barrow 
Barry 
Baylis 
Beardstown 
Beaverville 
Belvidere 
Benton 
Big Foot 
Blue Mound 
Bluff City 
Bluff Springs 
Bluffs 
Bridgeport 
Broadlands 
Browning 
Bryant 
Buckley 
Buckner 
Bulpitt 
Burlington 
Bush 
Bushnell 
Byron 
Cadwell 
Cairo 
Caldwell 
Caledonia 
Calloway 
Camp Point 
Canton 


Cities and ‘Iowns 


Served by 


Operating, Companies of the 


cMiddle West Utilities Company 


R.—Electric railway. 


Service 
Provided 


mA 


Se 
i) 


pee EY ed es eed dd ed ed Ded md edd ded ee ed ed ed ed St oot 


i 
a 


qn 


I.—Ice. 


H.—Heat. 


G.—Gas. 


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W.— Water. 


ILLINOIS (Continued) 


Town 


Capron 
Carbondale 
Carrollton 
Carterville 
Carthage 
Centralia 
Charleston 
Chatsworth 
Chebanse 
Chemung 
Chesterville 
Chipps 
Christopher 
Claremont 
Clayton 
Clifton 
Coalton 
Colchester 
Compton 
Crainville 
Crescent City 
Danforth 
Deer Grove 
De Kalb 
Delrey 
DeSoto 
Dixon 
Donovan 
Dorrisville 
Dudley 
Dunfermline 
Earlville 
Edinburg 
Effingham 
Eldena - 
Elkville 
Elliott 
Ellisville 
Elvaston 
Energy 
Erie 

Etna 
Fairbury 
Fairland 
Farmersville 
Findlay 
Forrest 
Forreston 
Franco 


Frankfort Heights 


Franklin 


Franklin Grove 


Frederick 
Freeport 
Fulton 


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Service 
Provided 


Se 
4 
aT 


DY 70 ed Dd Bed Ded Dd ed Ded ed ed ed Ded ed ed ed ed ed ed ed ed ae De ed ed ed ed ed ded ed ed ded ed dd ed ed ed ed ed dt od 2 ot 


E. G. I. 


E. G. 


MIDDLE WEST 


UTILITIES COMPANY 


Cities and Towns Served 


ILLINOIS (Continued) 
Service 


Town Provided 
Galt 

Galton 
Garden Prairie 
Gaskins City 
Gays 
Geneseo 
Genoa 
Gibson City 
Gilman 
Girard 
Glasford 
Golden 
Grand Tower 
Greenfield 
Griggsville 
Guthrie 
Haldane 
Hampshire 
Harrisburg 
Harvard 
Havana 
Hayes 
Hazelhurst 
Hebron 
Herrin 
Hersman 
Hillview 
Hinckley 
Hoopeston 
Hooppoole 
Humboldt 
Hume 
Hurst 

Ipava 
Jeiseyville 
Jerseyville 
Johnston City 
Jonesboro 
Joy 

Kane 
Kansas 
Keithsburg 
Kincaid 
Kingston 
Kirkland 
LaHogue 
LaPrairie 
Lawrenceville 
Leaf River 
Ledford 
Lee Center 
Leland 
Lewistown 
Lincoln 
Liverpoole 
Loda 
Longview 
Loxa 
Lyndon 
Macon 
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Manchester E. 
Maples Mill E. 
Marion ‘ Fe 1. 
Mason City E. 
Mattoon E. W. R. G. H. 
Maysville 

Melvin 

Mendota E. 
Meredosia 

Metcalf 

Milford 

Milledgeville 

Monroe Center 

Monterey 

Morrison 

Mounds 1d, 
Moweaqua 

Muddy 

Murrayville 

Mt. Morris 

Mt. Sterling 

Nachusa 

Neoga 

New Berlin 

New Boston 

Newman 

New Salem 

New Windsor 

Nokomis 

Norris 

North City 

North Henderson 

North Mounds 

Oakland 

Oblong 

Ohio 

Olney 

Onarga 

Oregon 

Orient 

Owaneco 

Palestine 

Pana 

Paris E. G. W. R. 
Pawnee 

Paw Paw . 
Paxton E. 
Pesotum 
Petersburg 
Piper City 
Pittsfield 

Plano 

Pleasant Plains 
Pleasant View 
Plymouth 

Polo 

Poplar Grove 
Prophetstown 
Robinson 
Roodhouse 
Roseville 
Royalton 


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ESSENTIAL SERVICE IN FIFTEEN 


Cities and Towns Served 


ILLINOIS (Continued) 


Town 


Richmond 
Ridgeville 
Rio 

Rock Falls 
Rushville 
Sandwich 
Saybrook 
Scarboro 
Seaton 
Sesser 
Shabbona 
Shaws 
Sheldon 
Sheldons Grove 
Sigel 
Stillman Valley 
Somonauk 
Springfield 
Sterling 
Stoy 

St. Elmo 
Sublette 
Sumner 
Sycamore 
Table Grove 
Tallula 
Tampico 
Taylorville 
Tennessee 
Thawville 
Thayer 
Teutopolis 
Thompsonville 
Timewell 
Tolono 
Tovey or Humphrey 
Tower Hill 
Tuscola 
Valier 
Valley City 
Vermont 
Versailles 
Villa Grove 
Viola 
Virden 
Virginia 
Walnut 
Wasson 
Waterman 
Watseka 
Waverly 
Wellington 
Wenonah 
West Brooklyn 
West City 
Westfield 
West Frankfort 
White Hall 
Winchester 
Windsor 
Woodhull 
Woodland 


Service 
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ILLINOIS (Continued) 


Town Provided 
Wrights E. 
Ziegler E. 


INDIANA 
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Aurora E. G. 
Bedford ie 
Benton 

Bloomington E 
Boswell 

Bristol 

Brook 

Campbellsburg 

Cedar Lake 

Charlestown 

Chase 

Clarksville E. 
Claysburg 

Columbus 

Connersville 

Corydon 

Cromwell 

Crown Point 

Earl Park 

Elletsville 

Foresman 

Fowler 

Francesville 

Franklin E. 
Goodland 

Goshen 

Greendale 

Greenfield 

Greenwood 

Jeffersonville E. G. 
Kentland 

Laurel 

Lebanon 

Lowell 

Medaryville 

Middleburg 

Milford 

Millersburg 

Milton 

Monon 

Monticello 

Morocco 

New Albany E.G. W. 
New Castle E. G 
New Paris 
Norway 
Pershing 
Port Fulton 
Remington 
Reynolds 
Salem 
Sellersburg 
Seymour 
Shelbyville 
Syracuse 
Topeka 
Wadena 


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Wakarusa 
Warsaw 
Waterford Mills 
Wawasee 
Williams 
Winona Lake 
Wolcott 
KENTUCKY 
Auburn 
Burnside 
Cave City 
Central City 
Cynthiana 
Dawson Springs 
Elizabethtown 
Eminence 
Evarts 
Ferguson 
Franklin 
Fulton 
Glasgow 
Greenville 
Harlan 
Hickman 
Hodgenville 
Horse Cave 
LaGrange 
Lancaster 
Lawrenceburg 
London 
Loyal 
Middlesboro 
Midway 
Morganfield 
Mt. Sterling 
New Castle 
North Pleasureville 
Pineville 
Princeton 
Richmond 
Senora 
Shelbyville 
Smithfield 
Somerset 
South Carrollton 
South Pleasureville 
Tyrone 
Varilla 
Versailles 
Uniontown 
Wallins 
Winchester 
Woodburn 
WISCONSIN 
Ableman 
Arena 
Ashland 
Avalon 
Baraboo 
Barksdale 


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Town 


Berlin 

Burnett Junction 
Bruce 

Cambria 

Cary 

Clinton 

Cobb 
Cokerville 
Darien 
Delavan 
Dodgeville 
Edgarton 
Eldorado 
Emerald Grove 
Eureka 

Fond du Lac 
Fond du Lac, North 
Fontana 

Fox Lake 
Fulton 

Genoa Junction 
Gile 

Green Lake 
Hamilton 
Highland 
Horicon 
Hurley 

Indian Ford 
Iron Belt 
Janesville 
Juneau 

Kohler 
Ladysmith 
Lake Geneva 
Linden 
Livingston 
Lohrville 

Lone Rock 
Marengo 
Markesan 
Mifflin 
Mineral Point 
Minnesota Junction 
Montfort 
Neshkoro 
North Freedom 
Oak Center 
Oakfield 
Odanah 

Omro 

Oshkosh 
Peebles 

Pence 

Portage 

Red Granite 
Rewey 

Ripon 

Rolling Prairie 
Rosendale 
Rush Lake 


Saxon 


PAGE SIXTY-TWO 


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Service 
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E. 
E. R. 
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E. 
E. 
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E. 
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Cities and Towns Served 


WISCONSIN (Continued) 


Town 

Sharon 
Sheboygan 
Spring Green 
Spring Lake 
Tony 

Upson 

Van Dyne 
Walworth 
Wautoma 
Williams Bay 
Winneconne 


Zenda 
MICHIGAN 


Bessemer 
Bloomingdale 
Cassapolis 
Constantine 
Decatur 
Gobles 
Hancock 
Houghton 
Ironwood 
Ishpeming 
Jones 

Lake Cora 
Lawton 
Marquette 
Nat. Mine or Winthrop 
Negaunee 
North Lake 
Palmer 

Paw Paw 
Ramsey 
Richmond 
Ripley 
Schoolcraft 
Three Rivers 
Vandalia 
Vicksburg 
Wakefield 
White Pigeon 


MISSOURI 
Albany 
Camden 
Camden Point 
Dearborn 
Farley 
Ferrelview 
Fleming 
Hardin 
Henrietta 
Lexington 
Liberty 
Linkville 
Marshall 
Missouri City 
Myrick 
Nashua 
Orrick 


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Town 


Richmond 
Smithville 
Swanwick 
Tracy 
Wellington 
Weston 


TENNESSEE 


Cumberland Gap 
Harrogate 
Jackson 


South Fulton 


VIRGINIA 


Appalachia 

Big Stone Gap 
Pennington Gap 
Pocket 

St. Charles 


NEBRASKA 
Abbott 

Alda 
Amherst 
Bennett 
Boelus or Howard City 
Cairo 
Chapman 
Clarks 
Dannebrog 
Doniphan 
Elba 

Farwell 
Gibbon 
Grand Island 
Kearney 
Lorton 
Nebraska City 
Odessa 

Paul 
Phillips 
Rockville 
Shelton 

St. Paul 
Wyoming 


OKLAHOMA 


Afton 
Antlers 
Atoka 
Boswell 
Broken Arrow 
Coalgate 
Coalton 
Cement 
Chelsea 
Chickasha 
Dawson 
Dewar 

Ft. Towson 


Guthrie 


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Service 
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Cities and Towns Served 


OKLAHOMA (Continued) 
Town Provided 


Henryetta E. I. 
Hugo E. I. 


Kusa E. 
Lehigh 
Minco 
Morris 
Ninnekah 
Nowata 
Okmulgee 
Paroak 
Phillips 
Pryor 
Redfork 
Rush Springs 
Sawyer 
Schulter 
Soper 
Spilter City 
Stringtown 
Tulsa 
Verden 
Vinita 
Wapanucka 


TEXAS 


Abilene E. G. 
Albany 

Anson 

Baird 

Buffalo Gap 

Cisco E. 
Clyde 

Cross Plains 

Goree 

Hallville 

Hamlin 

Haskel 

Jefferson 

Kilgore 

Knox City 

Lawn 

Longview 

Marshall E. 
McCauley 

Merkel 

Moran 

Munday 

Ovala 

Pioneer 

Plastico 

Putnam 

Rising Star 

Roby E. 
Rochester 

Rotan 

Rule 

Stamford 

St. Angelo 

Sylvester 

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Town 


Tuscola 
Wienert 


VERMONT 


Bennington 
Bennington Center 
Brattleboro 
Concord 

Danville 

East St. Johnsbury 
Newfane 

North Bennington 
North Danville 
Passumpsic 
Shaftsbury 

St. Johnsbury 

St. Johns Center 
West Brattleboro 
West Dummerston 


NEW HAMPSHIRE 
Berlin 

Berlin Mills 
Cascade 
Dover 

E. Rochester 
Farmington 
Gonic 
Gorham 
Hinsdale 
Madbury 
Middleton 
Milan 

Milton 
Milton Mills 
New Durham 
North Rochester 
Rochester 
Rollingsford 
Salmon Falls 
Sanbornville 
Somersworth 
Union 


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Hoosick 
Hoosick Falls 
North Hoosick 
Waloomsac : 


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Acton 

Berwick 

Lebanon 

North Berwick 

North Lebanon 

South Berwick 

South Berwick Junction 
South Lebanon 

West Lebanon 


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